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Manga colorization and anime generation

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This project aims to adapt state-of-the-art diffusion models for text-assisted, consistent manga colorization. It involves developing both a novel approach for evaluating colorization consistency and an interactive tool that enables user-guided colorization workflows.

Tasks:

  1. Data annotation for image captioning

  2. Data annotation for character reidentification

  3. Colorization tool development

Task Descriptions

  1. Data annotation for image captioning - Polish English captions for manga panels generated by a VLM

Skills:

  • Computer proficiency

  • English B2

  1. Data annotation for character reidentification - Polish character annotation (bbox/segm + id) for manga pages generated by a model

Skills:

  • Computer proficiency

  • English/Japanese/Chinese proficiency

  1. Colorization tool development - Develop web tool for interactive manga colorization

Skills:

  • Computer proficiency

  • English/Japanese/Chinese proficiency

Participants

  • Ilya Makarov

    Team lead

  • Maxim Golyadkin

    Project lead

Related Publications

Closing the Domain Gap in Manga Colorization via Aligned Paired Dataset

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (2025)

Maxim Golyadkin, Ilya Makarov

Advancing Sequential Manga Colorization for AR through Data Synthesis

IEEE Access (2025)

Maxim Golyadkin, Ilya Makarov

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